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IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem

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Excluded port issue for EMC VNX storage behind SVC

The customer has 8 SVC clusters with 8 nodes on their environment. They have many different type of storages produced by different vendors. They have faced with a problem only between SVC and EMC VNX midrange storage. When a drive streams soft med...
about 9 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

System managed throttles

Volumes throttling is managed at a canister/node level such that a throttle for a volume or server is the sum of what both canisters can deliver. If a canister were to fail the throttle can only deliver 50% of the original value. The throttle shou...
over 1 year ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Future consideration

FlashSystem GUI + FCM + SGC --> NO PHYSICAL CAPACITY INFO

In a FS config + FCM drives, working with CSM ans SGC (SafeGuarded Copies).Each SGC reserve 2% of LOGICALcapacity of source volume. But there is not possible to view PHYSICAL CAPACITY information after FCM compression. Virtualize GUI do not show r...
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

Automatically clear errors, and send alarm clear trap, for self healing errors

The svc code sends snmp traps when an event or an error occurs. To make error handling easier, it would be nice to get the svc to clear selffixed issues. A trap that states that the error has been automatically resolved should be sendt to the trap...
about 5 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration

Storwize to allow CSV export of volume list from UI

Some of the screens in the Storwize UI allow the contents to be downloaded into a CSV file. Not all screens do. This should be a consistent feature on all screens.
over 7 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Planned for future release

Add CIFS/NFS to spectrum Virtualize

Hello,A lot of customers are disappointed with the lack of files protocols on midrange storage.With the end of sales of V7K unified we are facing a major issue. All competitors are providing equivalent solution, and I think that building a solutio...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 1 Not under consideration

Allow DRAID6 to be configured with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs

A customer is requesting that we allow them to create a DRAID 6 array with 2 rebuild areas when using FCMs . Or allow him the option to have a "hot spare"disk that could jump into the array.
over 2 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Not under consideration

User set replication bandwidth allocation per IO group

Today SVC allocate a equal share of the partnership bandwidth to all IOGRP in a cluster.This RFE is to allow a user to set a different share (percent) of the overall bandwidth to different IOGRP
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Not under consideration

Uptime command

a "uptime" command that shows system uptime - perhaps lssystemuptime, if possible with several options to show uptime for nodes / drives / ports and other components
over 8 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 2 Future consideration

You are not warned of IOGrp Overload

Storwize will let you continue to add volumes to an overloaded IOgrp. There are no limits in this area which means you can add more work to an already stressed IOGRP. There is no balance either meaning one IOgrp can be over loaded while other IOgr...
about 6 years ago in IBM Spectrum Virtualize / FlashSystem 0 Future consideration